www.everydayhealth.com speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 14:21 UTC. Grade D (62/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 75 ms 19%
- TCP connect 51 ms 13%
- Server wait 259 ms 67%
Measured on the connection that fetched the HTML. Every other request on the page waits for the end of this bar before it can start.
How this page compares
Every report published here is in this comparison, so it is a reference population of pages tested from one server - not a benchmark of the whole web.
What these numbers mean
- The first byte arrived in 385 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 7.77 MB over 26 request(s). Images files are 99% of it, so resize and recompress the largest images before anything else.
- The HTML itself arrives gzip-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 99% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
Fix first: Image delivery and format - Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG fallback, size images to the space they occupy, and lazy-load anything below the fold. Images are usually more than half of a slow page.
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Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 7.77 MB across all of them.
Top issues
Image delivery and format
high impact9 image(s) over 200 KB and 15 large image(s) still served as JPEG or PNG.
Fix: Serve WebP or AVIF with a JPEG fallback, size images to the space they occupy, and lazy-load anything below the fold. Images are usually more than half of a slow page.
Render-blocking resources
high impact4 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (1 script(s), 3 stylesheet(s)). The page cannot paint until each one arrives.
Fix: Add defer or async to scripts that do not change the first paint, inline the critical CSS, and load the rest with media="print" plus an onload swap.
Total page weight
high impactThe page transfers 7.77 MB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 56.5 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
Third-party weight
medium impact1 third-party host(s) serve 7.72 MB of this page. Each one is another DNS lookup, TLS handshake and point of failure you do not control.
Fix: Self-host the libraries you can, drop the tags you cannot justify, and preconnect the ones you keep.
Avoid extra redirects
medium impact1 redirect hop(s) before the page load started, each one a full round trip before the first byte.
Fix: Link to the canonical URL (and make sure http, the apex domain and www all point at it) so no visitor pays a redirect first.
Waterfall
Slowest requests
Each bar is one request's own response time, scaled to the slowest. Assets were fetched in parallel, so the bars overlap in real time rather than stacking. first party third party
| Request | Type | Status | Time | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/mega-nav-images-2025/eh-nutrition-and-fitness-meganav-1440x810.png?sfvrsn=6e95a932_3 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.02 s | 492.3 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2026/ultra-processed-foods-stroke-risk-1440x810.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.02 s | 100.6 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/react-component-images/image-src-placeholder-16x9288625876.png 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.02 s | 80 B |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2025-gateway-illustrations/eh-crohns-gg-1440x810.png?sfvrsn=4d4e879c_3 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.02 s | 814.5 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2025-gateway-illustrations/eh-a-z-all-topics-gg-1440x810.png?sfvrsn=1bb54ce9_3 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.02 s | 760.1 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/mega-nav-images-2025/eh-tools-and-resources-meganav-1440x810.png?sfvrsn=106c2d0d_3 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.02 s | 545.0 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/mega-nav-images-2025/eh-product-reviews-meganav-1440x810.png?sfvrsn=64c05c16_3 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.02 s | 486.5 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2025-gateway-illustrations/eh-menopause-gg-1440x810.png?sfvrsn=b21a86be_3 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.02 s | 98.7 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2026/ultra-processed-foods-stroke-risk-1440x810.jpg?w=692 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.02 s | 34.1 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2026/lidl-us-recalls-gelatelli-coffee-vanilla-gelato-1440x810.jpg?w=172 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.02 s | 3.7 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2026/jalen-hurts-superficial-blood-clot-1440x810.jpg?w=172 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.02 s | 2.4 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2026/fda-approves-new-sunscreen-ingredient-in-decades-1440x810.jpg?w=172 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.02 s | 1.3 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2026/aerobic-mind-body-exercises-boost-mood-menopausal-women-1440x810.jpg?w=172 3rd party | images | 0 | 5.02 s | 0 B |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/mega-nav-images-2025/eh-about-us-meganav-1440x810.png?sfvrsn=725ac77e_3 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.02 s | 539.6 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2026/jalen-hurts-superficial-blood-clot-1440x810.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 5.02 s | 56.0 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2026/ultraprocessed-meats-raise-colorectal-cancer-risk-1440x810.jpg?w=172 3rd party | images | 0 | 5.02 s | 0 B |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/mega-nav-images-2025/eh-find-a-doctor-meganav-1440x810.png?sfvrsn=5b357b17_3 3rd party | images | 200 | 988 ms | 389.8 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/mega-nav-images-2025/eh-wellness-and-self-care-meganav-1440x810.png?sfvrsn=93152e96_3 3rd party | images | 200 | 977 ms | 2.44 MB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/mega-nav-images-2025/eh-health-conditions-meganav-1440x810.png?sfvrsn=28aabb68_3 3rd party | images | 200 | 966 ms | 476.3 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2026/lidl-us-recalls-gelatelli-coffee-vanilla-gelato-1440x810.jpg 3rd party | images | 200 | 966 ms | 137.7 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2025-gateway-illustrations/eh-diabetes-gg-1440x810.png?sfvrsn=dfabaa5_4 3rd party | images | 200 | 965 ms | 156.5 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2025-gateway-illustrations/eh-cancer-gg-1440x810.png?sfvrsn=e8d93c9_4 3rd party | images | 200 | 965 ms | 153.1 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2025-gateway-illustrations/eh-ovarian-cancer-gg-1440x810.png?sfvrsn=9f8247dc_4 3rd party | images | 200 | 965 ms | 152.9 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2026/women-with-autoimmune-diseases-less-believed-1440x810.jpg?w=172 3rd party | images | 200 | 965 ms | 3.0 KB |
| https://images.everydayhealth.com/images/2026/microplastics-human-health-harms-1440x810.jpg?w=172 3rd party | images | 200 | 965 ms | 2.4 KB |
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